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Farming Today: 18/05/2011

18/05/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 18/05/2011

Anna Hill asks if enough is being done to reduce food poisoning from chicken.

At least 50,000 people had food poisoning after eating or handling chicken last year. Anna Hill asks what farmers and processors are doing to reduce campylobacter infections.

More than 62 thousand people suffered campylobacter infections in England and Wales alone last year - a 25% increase over the last 2 years according to the Health Protection Agency.

The Food Standards Agency says up to 80% of food-related cases can be linked to chicken and estimates there could even be as many as 300,000. The FSA has now told the poultry industry it must take action to reduce the levels of contamination. Anna Hill asks the British Poultry Council if they're doing enough. 

Two hundred native crayfish are being released at a secret location today to help revive numbers. The white-clawed crayfish has become endangered since the American signal crayfish was introduced in the 1980s. Meanwhile Plantlife are calling for a ban of 30 invasive plants which are sold in the UK to prevent them spreading further. 

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